rename() cannot replace the file which is opened with writable access

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 12 15:30, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> From: Masamichi Hosoda
> > If I understand correctly,
> > POSIX behavior should be able to replace the writable opened file by
> > rename().
> > But, It does not work on my Cygwin environment.
> > 
> > Is it no problem if Cygwin's behavior is different from POSIX behavior?
> > If so, we need different application handling for Cygwin and POSIX.
> 
> I thought it would be informative to respond by referring the OP
> to a section of the Cygwin User's Guide or FAQ that mentioned the
> limitations of Cygwin, but I could not find it.

Needs debugging.  Off the top of my head I have no clue why this
doesn't work.  I'm just not near any Windows machine ATM...


Corinna

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